Gay upl race to wed over fears for future of same-sex marriage

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• FIVE YEARS ON, LGBT+ UPL FEAR FOR FUTURE OF GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY UPL RACE TO WED OVER FEARS FOR FUTURE OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• IF ROE V. WA FALLS, ARE LGBT RIGHTS NEXT? DPE ASSURANC, THE SUPREME COURT STRIKG DOWN ROE V. WA ULD PORTEND FUTURE ATTACKS ON LGBT RIGHTS.JOSEPH FONS HOLDS A PRI FLAG ONT OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT BUILDG AFTER THE URT LED THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE N NOT BE DISCIPLED OR FIRED BASED ON THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN JUNE 15, 2020 WASHGTON, DC. THE URT IS POISED TO STRIKE DOWN THE LANDMARK ABORTN LG ROE V. WA, A CISN THAT ULD SET THE STAGE FOR FUTURE ATTACKS ON LGBT RIGHTS.(CHIP SOMOVILLA / GETTY IMAG)BY LREN MCGGHY7:00 AM ON MAY 4, 2022 CDTLISTENAUSTIN — A LEAKED DRAFT OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S FORTHG OPN ON ABORTN SAYS THAT THE RIGHTS TO GAY MARRIAGE AND SAME-SEX PARTNER TIMACY MAY BE SAFE — BUT ONLY FOR NOW.ON MONDAY, POLI RELEASED A DOCUMENT THAT SHOWS THE URT IS POISED TO OVERTURN THE RIGHT TO ABORTN CID THE 1973 LANDMARK TEXAS SE ROE V. WA. CHIEF JTICE JOHN ROBERTS ON TUDAY NFIRMED THE LEAKED DOCUMENT’S VERACY, BUT SAID DO NOT REPRENT THE URT’S CISN OR THE ULTIMATE POSN OF ANY JTICE.ADVERTISEMENTIF PROV TO BE THE FAL VERSN, OR CLOSE TO , THE OPN WOULD NOT ONLY UPHOLD A MISSISSIPPI BAN ON ABORTNS AT 15 WEEKS BUT ALSO OVERTURN ROE AND TRIGGER EVEN STRICTER BANS OTHER STAT, CLUDG TEXAS.ADVERTISEMENTCONSTUTNAL LAW EXPERTS BELIEVE THE DRAFT OPN ALSO SHEDS LIGHT ON THE FUTURE OF LGBT RIGHTS THIS STATE AND ACROSS THE UNTRY. IN THE DOCUMENT, JTICE SAMUEL ALO MAK CLEAR THAT THE CISN WOULD APPLY ONLY TO ABORTN AND THAT SHOULD NOT BE READ TO HAVE ANY EFFECT ON PREV LGS UPHOLDG GAY UNNS AND STRIKG DOWN BANS ON GAY SEX.BREAKG NEWSGET THE LATT BREAKG NEWS OM NORTH TEXAS AND BEYOND.EMAIL ADDRSBY SIGNG UP YOU AGREE TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICYSUBMITTHIS SHOULD PROVI SOME FORT TO LGBT RIGHTS ADVOT, EXPERTS SAID. BUT THEY ADD THAT UCHED THIS ASSURANCE IS A WARNG.OVERTURNG ROE WOULD SHOW NO PRECENT IS SACRED. AND THE DRAFT DOCUMENT CIRCULATG, WHILE NARROWLY TAILORED TO THE ABORTN ISSUE, ALSO GIV ACTIVISTS A PLAYBOOK FOR HOW FUTURE TO TARGET OTHER RIGHTS ROOTED THE SAME PRCIPL, LIKE PRIVACY, TONOMY AND FAY CHOICE.ADVERTISEMENTRELATED:ABORTN TEXAS WOULD SENTIALLY BE PROHIBED IF ROE VS. WA IS OVERTURNEDFOR THOSE LIVG STAT LIKE TEXAS — WHOSE LAWMAKERS NEVER AXED NSTUTNALLY UNENFORCEABLE LAWS BANNG SODOMY OR FG MARRIAGE AS STRICTLY A HETEROSEXUAL AFFAIR — ALO’S FERENCE TO THE WILL OF LOL LEGISLATUR SETS THE STATE CAPOL, AND NOT THE URTROOM, AS THE FAL BATTLEGROUND FOR THE QUTN OF LGBT RIGHTS.WH THEIR HOLY GRAIL ATTAED — STRIKG DOWN THE RIGHT TO ABORTN — WILL NSERVATIV GO AFTER GAY MARRIAGE NEXT?ADVERTISEMENT“THOSE RIGHTS ARE SECURE FOR NOW,” DALE CARPENTER, NSTUTNAL LAW CHAIR AT SMU’S DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW, SAID. “BUT BE ON GUARD.”ADVERTISEMENTWHAT DO THE LEAKED DRAFT SAY ABOUT LGBT RIGHTS?THE DRAFT OPN ADDRS LGBT RIGHTS TWO DIFFERENT PLAC, CARPENTER SAID.IN A SECTN DISCSG PRECENT, ALO SAID THAT ABORTN IS DISTGUISHED OM OTHER DIVISIVE CULTURAL ISSU BEE VOLV “POTENTIAL LIFE.”ADVERTISEMENT“NONE OF THE OTHER CISNS CED BY ROE AND [PLANNED PARENTHOOD V.] CASEY VOLVED THE CRIL MORAL QUTN POSED BY ABORTN. THEY ARE THEREFORE APPOSE,” ALO WROTE.THE DRAFT REPEATS THIS DISTCTN LATER AND GO A STEP FURTHER TO EXPLICLY ALLAY THE FEARS OF THOSE WHO WOULD READ THIS OPN AS A REJECTN OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND OTHER LGBT RIGHTS.“TO ENSURE THAT OUR CISN IS NOT MISUNRSTOOD OR MISCHARACTERIZED, WE EMPHASIZE THAT OUR CISN NCERNS THE NSTUTNAL RIGHT TO ABORTN AND NO OTHER RIGHT. NOTHG THIS OPN SHOULD BE UNRSTOOD TO ST DOUBT ON PRECENTS THAT DO NOT NCERN ABORTN,” ALO WROTE.ADVERTISEMENTCARPENTER SAID THIS MEANS LGBT S ALREADY CID BY THE URT WON’T BE “IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY” IMPERILED.“HE’S OFFERG REASSURANCE ABOUT THE SECURY OF OTHER RIGHTS — FOR THE TIME BEG,” CARPENTER SAID. BUT HE ADD THAT THE ENTIRE OPN, AT LEAST THE DRAFT AS WRTEN, IS “HOSTILE” TOWARD RIGHTS THAT ARE NOT SPECIFILLY NAMED THE U.S. CONSTUTN — CLUDG MARRIAGE, SEXUAL TIMACY AND EVEN NTRACEPTN.ANTHONY MICHAEL KREIS, A NSTUTNAL LAW PROFSOR AT GEIA STATE UNIVERSY, SCRIBED THE ARRAY OF AMERIN RIGHTS AS A TAPTRY.“ONCE YOU PULL ONE STRG, THE OTHERS BEE MUCH MORE LOOSE. THE BDG IS REALLY THREATENED,” KREIS SAID. “ALL OF OUR RIGHTS, ALL OF OUR CIVIL LIBERTI, THEY RISE AND FALL TOGETHER. THEY’RE TERTWED.”ADVERTISEMENTWHILE THE FABRIC OF LGBT RIGHTS WOULD NOT UNRAVEL IMMEDIATELY, KREIS SAID WOULD BE MUCH EASER FOR ANTI-GAY ADVOT TO AY AROUND THE EDG AS ROE FALLS. IF THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY IS LOST THE ABORTN SETTG, FOR EXAMPLE, STAT ULD ARGUE THEY HAVE AN TERT IMPOSG THEIR WILL ON OTHER PRIVATE MEDIL CISNS, LIKE TREATMENTS FOR TRANSGENR PATIENTS, PECIALLY CHILDREN AND ADOLCENTS.“WE’RE FOR A VERY UGLY FEW MONTHS, FEW YEARS,” KREIS SAID.WHAT ULD THE LEAKED DRAFT MEAN FOR LGBT RIGHTS TEXAS?
• CONTRACEPTN, GAY MARRIAGE: CLARENCE THOMAS SIGNALS NEW TARGETS FOR SUPREME URT
• GAY MARRIAGE
• ‘MORN FAY’ WRER REVEALS EMOTNAL BACKSTORY OF ‘HISTORIC’ GAY MARRIAGE PROPOSAL (EXCLIVE)

FIVE YEARS ON, LGBT+ UPL FEAR FOR FUTURE OF GAY MARRIAGE

-based LGBT+ rights Tmp admistratn also argued agast extendg workplace protectns to LGBT+ people, a challenge nied by the Supreme Court’s historic cisn last week lg that feral law protected gay and trans people om discrimatn at spe this, gay and lbian fai, as well as LGBT+ activists, worry that same-sex marriage uld bee a target.

”‘SKIM MILK MARRIAGE’While an outright dismissal of same-sex marriage is nsired highly unlikely, legal experts say cisns at state level and the lower urts, many filled wh Tmp-appoted judg, uld ero protectns for gay upl. Support for same-sex marriage has also creased, wh more than six 10 Amerins favor, acrdg to the Public Relign Rearch Instute (PRRI), agast jt 36% approval remas divid across party l, wh nearly three-quarters of Democrats and two-thirds of pennts favorg same-sex marriage, vers 47% of Republins, acrdg to the PRRI’s the 2020 electn, the Republin Party has adopted the same platform as did for 2016, backg “tradnal marriage and fay, based on marriage between one man and one woman” spe the Supreme Court lg, most stat ntue to rry gay marriage bans on the books, wh Republins stat such as Florida and Indiana blockg attempts to strike down the outdated and effectual bans. ‘KEEP UP THE FIGHT’Meanwhile, the issue of whether relig groups should be able to refe to serve gay and lbian upl bee of spirual beliefs has e up several tim feral 2018, the Supreme Court sid wh a baker who cled to make a weddg ke for a same-sex uple, sayg would vlate his Christian s next ssn, the Court will also hear a dispute over the cy of Philalphia’s refal to place children wh a Catholic agency that bars gay and lbian upl om s latt lg on workplace discrimatn, Jtice Neil Gorsuch, a Tmp appotee, noted that the Court was “eply ncerned wh prervg the promise of the ee exercise of relign enshred our Constutn.

“Even though they may still be legal, they don’t have the same protectns, and they don’t have the same equaly that heterosexual marriage do, ” he ’s this fear of gog back to send-class cizenship that has ma Stacey and Cheralyn termed to speak gay marriage was legal, Cheralyn went to urt to adopt Stacey’s last name: the judge was lg mostly on divorce s, she said, takg 30 sends wh the divorcg upl, whereas she was terrogated for 10 mut. Opn|The Future of Same-Sex Marriage ADVERTISEMENTEdorialJuly 14, 2013As historic and wele as we found the Supreme Court’s two recent cisns on same-sex marriage, they served to emphasize the lgerg equaly for lns of gay and lbian Amerins who do not live the 13 stat that enforce the right of all adult Amerins to marry the person of their New Jersey, Gov. Scholars and the general public beme creasgly terted the issue durg the late 20th century, a perd when attus toward homosexualy and laws regulatg homosexual behavur were liberalized, particularly wtern Europe and the Uned issue of same-sex marriage equently sparked emotnal and polil clash between supporters and opponents.

GAY UPL RACE TO WED OVER FEARS FOR FUTURE OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

Relig and secular expectatns of marriage and sexualy Over time the historil and tradnal cultur origally rerd by the lik of Bachofen and Man slowly succumbed to the homogenizatn imposed by lonialism.

In other s, the cultural homogeney supported by the domant relign did not rult the applitn of doctre to the civic realm but may nohels have fostered a smoother seri of discsns among the cizenry: Belgium and Spa had legalized same-sex marriage, for stance, spe official opposn om their predomant relig stutn, the Roman Catholic Church. Most of the world religns have at some pots their histori opposed same-sex marriage for one or more of the followg stated reasons: homosexual acts vlate natural law or dive tentns and are therefore immoral; passag sacred texts nmn homosexual acts; and relig tradn regniz only the marriage of one man and one woman as valid. When Proposn 8 passed, he said, tged what should otherwise have been a joyo night — the electn of Barack Obama — wh than a later, as qutns are once more raised about the future of gay marriage, he said he’s not necsarily fearful.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMore Perfect UnnsJuly 3, 2011In 44 stat, the future of gay marriage still pends on legislatur, ernors and voters — and eventually, perhaps, Supreme Court Jtice Anthony Kennedy.

IF ROE V. WA FALLS, ARE LGBT RIGHTS NEXT? DPE ASSURANC, THE SUPREME COURT STRIKG DOWN ROE V. WA ULD PORTEND FUTURE ATTACKS ON LGBT RIGHTS.JOSEPH FONS HOLDS A PRI FLAG ONT OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT BUILDG AFTER THE URT LED THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE N NOT BE DISCIPLED OR FIRED BASED ON THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN JUNE 15, 2020 WASHGTON, DC. THE URT IS POISED TO STRIKE DOWN THE LANDMARK ABORTN LG ROE V. WA, A CISN THAT ULD SET THE STAGE FOR FUTURE ATTACKS ON LGBT RIGHTS.(CHIP SOMOVILLA / GETTY IMAG)BY LREN MCGGHY7:00 AM ON MAY 4, 2022 CDTLISTENAUSTIN — A LEAKED DRAFT OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S FORTHG OPN ON ABORTN SAYS THAT THE RIGHTS TO GAY MARRIAGE AND SAME-SEX PARTNER TIMACY MAY BE SAFE — BUT ONLY FOR NOW.ON MONDAY, POLI RELEASED A DOCUMENT THAT SHOWS THE URT IS POISED TO OVERTURN THE RIGHT TO ABORTN CID THE 1973 LANDMARK TEXAS SE ROE V. WA. CHIEF JTICE JOHN ROBERTS ON TUDAY NFIRMED THE LEAKED DOCUMENT’S VERACY, BUT SAID DO NOT REPRENT THE URT’S CISN OR THE ULTIMATE POSN OF ANY JTICE.ADVERTISEMENTIF PROV TO BE THE FAL VERSN, OR CLOSE TO , THE OPN WOULD NOT ONLY UPHOLD A MISSISSIPPI BAN ON ABORTNS AT 15 WEEKS BUT ALSO OVERTURN ROE AND TRIGGER EVEN STRICTER BANS OTHER STAT, CLUDG TEXAS.ADVERTISEMENTCONSTUTNAL LAW EXPERTS BELIEVE THE DRAFT OPN ALSO SHEDS LIGHT ON THE FUTURE OF LGBT RIGHTS THIS STATE AND ACROSS THE UNTRY. IN THE DOCUMENT, JTICE SAMUEL ALO MAK CLEAR THAT THE CISN WOULD APPLY ONLY TO ABORTN AND THAT SHOULD NOT BE READ TO HAVE ANY EFFECT ON PREV LGS UPHOLDG GAY UNNS AND STRIKG DOWN BANS ON GAY SEX.BREAKG NEWSGET THE LATT BREAKG NEWS OM NORTH TEXAS AND BEYOND.EMAIL ADDRSBY SIGNG UP YOU AGREE TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICYSUBMITTHIS SHOULD PROVI SOME FORT TO LGBT RIGHTS ADVOT, EXPERTS SAID. BUT THEY ADD THAT UCHED THIS ASSURANCE IS A WARNG.OVERTURNG ROE WOULD SHOW NO PRECENT IS SACRED. AND THE DRAFT DOCUMENT CIRCULATG, WHILE NARROWLY TAILORED TO THE ABORTN ISSUE, ALSO GIV ACTIVISTS A PLAYBOOK FOR HOW FUTURE TO TARGET OTHER RIGHTS ROOTED THE SAME PRCIPL, LIKE PRIVACY, TONOMY AND FAY CHOICE.ADVERTISEMENTRELATED:ABORTN TEXAS WOULD SENTIALLY BE PROHIBED IF ROE VS. WA IS OVERTURNEDFOR THOSE LIVG STAT LIKE TEXAS — WHOSE LAWMAKERS NEVER AXED NSTUTNALLY UNENFORCEABLE LAWS BANNG SODOMY OR FG MARRIAGE AS STRICTLY A HETEROSEXUAL AFFAIR — ALO’S FERENCE TO THE WILL OF LOL LEGISLATUR SETS THE STATE CAPOL, AND NOT THE URTROOM, AS THE FAL BATTLEGROUND FOR THE QUTN OF LGBT RIGHTS.WH THEIR HOLY GRAIL ATTAED — STRIKG DOWN THE RIGHT TO ABORTN — WILL NSERVATIV GO AFTER GAY MARRIAGE NEXT?ADVERTISEMENT“THOSE RIGHTS ARE SECURE FOR NOW,” DALE CARPENTER, NSTUTNAL LAW CHAIR AT SMU’S DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW, SAID. “BUT BE ON GUARD.”ADVERTISEMENTWHAT DO THE LEAKED DRAFT SAY ABOUT LGBT RIGHTS?THE DRAFT OPN ADDRS LGBT RIGHTS TWO DIFFERENT PLAC, CARPENTER SAID.IN A SECTN DISCSG PRECENT, ALO SAID THAT ABORTN IS DISTGUISHED OM OTHER DIVISIVE CULTURAL ISSU BEE VOLV “POTENTIAL LIFE.”ADVERTISEMENT“NONE OF THE OTHER CISNS CED BY ROE AND [PLANNED PARENTHOOD V.] CASEY VOLVED THE CRIL MORAL QUTN POSED BY ABORTN. THEY ARE THEREFORE APPOSE,” ALO WROTE.THE DRAFT REPEATS THIS DISTCTN LATER AND GO A STEP FURTHER TO EXPLICLY ALLAY THE FEARS OF THOSE WHO WOULD READ THIS OPN AS A REJECTN OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND OTHER LGBT RIGHTS.“TO ENSURE THAT OUR CISN IS NOT MISUNRSTOOD OR MISCHARACTERIZED, WE EMPHASIZE THAT OUR CISN NCERNS THE NSTUTNAL RIGHT TO ABORTN AND NO OTHER RIGHT. NOTHG THIS OPN SHOULD BE UNRSTOOD TO ST DOUBT ON PRECENTS THAT DO NOT NCERN ABORTN,” ALO WROTE.ADVERTISEMENTCARPENTER SAID THIS MEANS LGBT S ALREADY CID BY THE URT WON’T BE “IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY” IMPERILED.“HE’S OFFERG REASSURANCE ABOUT THE SECURY OF OTHER RIGHTS — FOR THE TIME BEG,” CARPENTER SAID. BUT HE ADD THAT THE ENTIRE OPN, AT LEAST THE DRAFT AS WRTEN, IS “HOSTILE” TOWARD RIGHTS THAT ARE NOT SPECIFILLY NAMED THE U.S. CONSTUTN — CLUDG MARRIAGE, SEXUAL TIMACY AND EVEN NTRACEPTN.ANTHONY MICHAEL KREIS, A NSTUTNAL LAW PROFSOR AT GEIA STATE UNIVERSY, SCRIBED THE ARRAY OF AMERIN RIGHTS AS A TAPTRY.“ONCE YOU PULL ONE STRG, THE OTHERS BEE MUCH MORE LOOSE. THE BDG IS REALLY THREATENED,” KREIS SAID. “ALL OF OUR RIGHTS, ALL OF OUR CIVIL LIBERTI, THEY RISE AND FALL TOGETHER. THEY’RE TERTWED.”ADVERTISEMENTWHILE THE FABRIC OF LGBT RIGHTS WOULD NOT UNRAVEL IMMEDIATELY, KREIS SAID WOULD BE MUCH EASER FOR ANTI-GAY ADVOT TO AY AROUND THE EDG AS ROE FALLS. IF THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY IS LOST THE ABORTN SETTG, FOR EXAMPLE, STAT ULD ARGUE THEY HAVE AN TERT IMPOSG THEIR WILL ON OTHER PRIVATE MEDIL CISNS, LIKE TREATMENTS FOR TRANSGENR PATIENTS, PECIALLY CHILDREN AND ADOLCENTS.“WE’RE FOR A VERY UGLY FEW MONTHS, FEW YEARS,” KREIS SAID.WHAT ULD THE LEAKED DRAFT MEAN FOR LGBT RIGHTS TEXAS?

But New York, as five stat before , gay marriage’s future is the hands of gay upl the s ahead, their choic will gradually transform gay marriage om an ia to a culture: they’ll terme the social expectatns associated wh gay wedlock, the gay marriage and divorce rat, the differenc and siari between gay and lbian unns, the way marriage teracts wh gay parentg, and much more bis.

Once equipped wh marriage’s “entlements and entanglements, ” Jonathan Rch predicted his book “Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for Ameri, ” “same-sex relatnships will ntue to move toward both durabily and exclivy.

Lee tried and failed to attach chang to the bill that he said would more strongly protect relig Colls phed back, notg that the bill had received strong backg om fah-based groups, cludg the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, which historilly has aggrsively opposed gay rights. On July 25, 2014 Miami-Da County Circu Court Judge Sarah Zabel led Florida’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal and stated that the ban “serv only to hurt, to discrimate, to prive same-sex upl and their fai of equal digny, to label and treat them as send-class cizens, and to em them unworthy of participatn one of the fundamental stutns of our society. The Amerin Psychologil Associatn, Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, and others nclud that legal gay marriage giv upl “accs to the social support that already facilat and strengthens heterosexual marriag, wh all of the psychologil and physil health benefs associated wh that support.

CONTRACEPTN, GAY MARRIAGE: CLARENCE THOMAS SIGNALS NEW TARGETS FOR SUPREME URT

A 2010 analysis found that after their stat had banned gay marriage, gay, lbian and bisexual people suffered a 37% crease mood disorrs, a 42% crease alhol-e disorrs, and a 248% crease generalized anxiety disorrs. In 2012, the Williams Instute at the Universy of California at Los Angel (UCLA) found that the first five years after Massachetts legalized gay marriage 2004, same-sex weddg expendur (such as venue rental, weddg k, etc. 2016 printial ndidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fra stated that civil unns are aquate as an equivalent to marriage: “Benefs are beg btowed to gay upl [ civil unns]… I believe we need to rpect those who believe that the word marriage has a spirual foundatn… Why n’t we rpect and tolerate that while at the same time sayg ernment nnot btow benefs unequally.

Court papers filed July 2014 by attorneys fendg Arizona’s gay marriage ban stated that “the State regulat marriage for the primary purpose of channelg potentially procreative sexual relatnships to endurg unns for the sake of jog children to both their mother and their father… Same-sex upl n never provi a child wh both her blogil mother and her blogil father. Lee Badgett, PhD, Director of the Center for Public Policy and Admistratn at the Universy of Massachetts at Amherst, stated that for many gay activists “marriage means adoptg heterosexual forms of fay and givg up distctively gay fay forms and perhaps even gay and lbian culture.

GAY MARRIAGE

Pla Ettelbrick, JD, Profsor of Law and Women’s Studi, wrote 1989, “Marriage ns ntrary to two of the primary goals of the lbian and gay movement: the affirmatn of gay inty and culture and the validatn of many forms of relatnships. LGBT activist llective Agast Equaly stated, “Gay marriage ap hetero privilege… [and] creas enomic equaly by perpetuatg a system which ems married begs more worthy of the basics like health re and enomic rights.

‘MORN FAY’ WRER REVEALS EMOTNAL BACKSTORY OF ‘HISTORIC’ GAY MARRIAGE PROPOSAL (EXCLIVE)

Queer activist Anrs Zanichkowsky stated June 2013 that the then mpaign for gay marriage “tentnally and malicly eras and exclus so many queer people and cultur, particularly trans and genr non-nformg people, poor queer people, and queer people non-tradnal fai… marriage thks non-married people are viant and not tly servg of civil rights. In Islamic tradn, several hadhs (passag attributed to the Prophet Muhammad) nmn gay and lbian relatnships, cludg the saygs “When a man mounts another man, the throne of God shak, ” and “Sihaq [lbian sex] of women is za [illegimate sexual terurse].

Matt Barber, Associate Dean for Onle Programs at Liberty Universy School of Law, stated, “Every dividual engaged the homosexual liftyle, who has adopted a homosexual inty, they know, tuively, that what they’re dog is immoral, unnatural, and self-stctive, yet they thirst for that affirmatn. A 2003 set of guil signed by Pope John Pl II stated: “There are absolutely no grounds for nsirg homosexual unns to be any way siar or even remotely analogo to God’s plan for marriage and fay… Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go agast the natural moral law.